Just like so many of the farmers I grew up around, they have gone home, and hopefully are gleaning 300 bpa every year.
This thread will be deleted for sure in teh morning, but for right now, I am remembering and sharing and hoping that those younger guys will read this and take it to heart, not to let it die, but to look at it and say, "This is now my time to leave a footprint for my children."
So many people out there who just don't care... who can't afford to buy up the land and use it. I should have listened to my parents when they said to go to college and make 6 figures. I didn't. If I did, then, and only then could I afford to buy the land and farm it. Instead, I will sit there and remember when, and get choked up every time.
I will remember the day Marburger Farms went out of business because of this. I will look back. My family sold milk to Isaly's of Pittsburgh, PA. SkyScraper cones, Klondike bars... That was our milk. We fueled a legend and now it is gone too, like our dairy. That is the true meaning of Yesterday's Tractors.
The times of Yesterday, we relive today in a small part by operating their machinery on a small scale, where once, those machines were the biggest adn baddest and they ruled the farm. A man was proud to own something as big as a Farmall M. WE see them in tractor pulls, parades, and shows. Some of you still pull a plow with them. I, myself plowed 7 acres with a Farmall C 3 years ago. It wasn't easy. But that is how they earned those rough hands and those saturday nights to have their ice cream and country-gospel music.
What do we do today to earn it?
The last one to remember is the first one to forget what Yesterday was really like. When I die, I wish to be burned to potash and turned under on the farm with the lime. Let me give one more time to the land that gave me so many memories of Yesterday's Tractors and Yesterday's way of life. For us, it is all we have.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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